AceiroDistrict: Braga · Cávado
Braga
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Braga is a municipality in the district of Braga (sub-region: Cávado), covering 183 km² in 37 parishes. 42 % of it is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.
The map finds 262 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Braga, Gualtar and Aveleda. 54 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Costa, Balbeira and Torre.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 3,776 of 7,004 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Strip area (whole municipality)
- 2,628 ha
- Villages
- 262
BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 32 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.